Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,533 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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George Prioleau (1856-1927)
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Autherine Juanita Lucy (1929- )
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William J. Simmons (1849-1890)
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Ralph Abernathy (1926-1990)

Explore Global African History

Steve Biko memorial, 1977
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(1971) SASO Resolution on Black Theology
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (1954- )
Milton S. J. Wright
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Milton S. J. Wright (1903-1972)
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Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912-1966)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Confounded: The Enigma of “Blind Tom” Wiggins
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The Other Hermitage: The Enslaved at the Andrew Jackson Plantation
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Titanic’s Black Passenger: Creating Historical Fiction From Historical Fact
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From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Post-Civil War South

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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